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No. 450,113. Patented Apr, 7, 1891.

WINES-8E8 ATTORNEY.

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\VILLIAM H. SNO\V,' OF HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO THEMODERN TOBACCO BARN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,113, dated April7', 1891. Application filed August 28, 1890. Serial No. 363,313. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM H. SNOW, a citizen of the United States,residing at High Point, in the State of North Carolina, have 5 inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Baskets, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings,

forming a part of this specification. My invention relates to basketsand it consists of a basket without a handle and of shallow depth,technically known as a warehouse basket, constructed in the manner andconsisting of the several parts herein- I after fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the same, Figure 1 is a planview from the inside of the basket. Fig. 2 is a sectional yiew thereofthrough the line as as; and Fig. 3 1s a view of the corner, looking atthe same from the outside.

For use in warehouses, and particularly in tobacco-warehouses, basketsof large diam eter and of shallow depth and without handles are founddesirable and useful. Subjected to such usage, they need to be light,cheaply made, and well braced.

To this end the object of my invention is to construct such a basketwhich can be grasped at the sides through apertures left for the purposeby the hands of two or more men, and which, owing to the size of thehasket, shall be so constructed that the strain shall be equal allaround it and be supported by braces on the inside connecting itsopposite corners and separatelysecured to each and every platted strip.Baskets for such purposes are usually made of narrow flat strips ofsplit oak wood, which are steamed or soaked to make them pliable andeasily worked into the form of a basket.

In the construction of my improved basket two half-hoops of wood stripsA and B are brought together at two opposite sides of the basket to formthe inner rim, while two other half-hoops C and D are brought togetherat the two other opposite sides of the basket to form the outer rim,while cross-pieces E E and F F, extending from diagonally-oppositecorners,

50 have their ends brought up between the inner and outer rimsaforesaid. Over the frame thus formed other strips L M and P N are thenplatted alternately (see Fig. 2) and as usual, but at right angles toeach other to form the bottom and sides of the basket upon the exteriorof the skeleton frame, consisting of the inner and outer rims andcross-pieces above described. The platted strips L M P N have their endsbrought up between the inner and outer rims A B and C D, and the saidrims are then nailed together by nails m m,

passing through the same and separately through the ends of each of theplatted strips. Thus each of the platted strips is separately securedupon an interior brace and to the rim-strips. Other fastenings R aredriven through the cross-pieces E and F and the platted strips, whilefastenings n are secured at the corners of the basket through the rimsand the ends of the cross-pieces. 0'

At intervals on two of the opposite sides of the basket spaces H H HHare left to form a substitute for handles, this being accomplished bycutting off at each end two of the platted strips (marked G G G G) andsecuring the same by fastening the ends thereof to the last strip atright angles therewith near the rim of the basket.

The result of this construction is a basket light in weight, cheaply andeasily made, and durable, in that its sides are securely braced fromeach of its four corners, which braces also sustain the bottom of thebasket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A rectangular basket composed of an inner top rim A B, two interiorsupporting and bracing strips E and F, passing diagonally from oppositecorners of and secured to said rim, and other strips L M and P N,platted at right angles to each other over said supportin strips andeach separately secured thereto and to the rim-strip, substantially asdescribed.

2. A rectangular basket constructed with inner and outer top rims A Band C D, each composed of two half-hoops joined on opposite sides, twosupporting and bracing strips E and F, crossing each other diagonallyand too secured at their ends between said rims at IntestimonywhereofIhavehereuntoaffixed the opposite corners thereof, andother strigs my signature this 21st day of July, A. D. [O L M and P N,plattedat right angles to each 1890 other over said supporting andbracing strips |T T and having their ends secured between said WILLIAM5x rims and each separately secured to said brac- YVitnesses:ing-strips, respectively, substantially as de- 0. C. \VYSONG, scribed.E. A. HAsTEN.

